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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: owenpga on September 27, 2010, 05:38:02 pm

Title: how do i print test prints of a cropped section of original image?
Post by: owenpga on September 27, 2010, 05:38:02 pm

I'm sure this is a very fundamental question but how would you crop a 2" section of a print in LR and print to a 4 x 6 sheet of paper? When i crop the image it doesn't give me any dimensions.  i'm trying to experiment a bit with different print resolutions comparing them to the native resolution.   

Title: Re: how do i print test prints of a cropped section of original image?
Post by: feppe on September 27, 2010, 05:46:23 pm

Print module/Guides/Show Guides/Dimensions

Title: Re: how do i print test prints of a cropped section of original image?
Post by: eliedinur on September 27, 2010, 07:05:44 pm

Do a little math. If you are planning to print at, say, 300 ppi, the crop has to be 600x600 pixels for a 2x2 inch print. The Info overlay can be set to show cropped dimensions

Title: Re: how do i print test prints of a cropped section of original image?
Post by: NikoJorj on September 28, 2010, 05:53:30 am

And if you don't want to add a crop to your image, you can make a virtual copy and crop it.

Title: Re: how do i print test prints of a cropped section of original image?
Post by: owenpga on September 28, 2010, 08:50:48 am

thanks for the reply. after i posted i figured it out. pretty simple. thanks.

Title: Re: how do i print test prints of a cropped section of original image?
Post by: PeterAit on September 29, 2010, 11:39:29 am

Y'know, this would be a very useful feature. Select a region of a photo and print it. Adobe, are you listening?